<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
<title>THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/aesops.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="story">
<h2>THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW</h2>
<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/220.jpg" alt="THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW"></div>
<p>A <span class="picturedef wolf">wolf</span>
, who was roaming about on the <span class="picturedef plain">plain</span>
 when the <span class="picturedef sun">sun</span>
 was
getting low in the <span class="picturedef sky">sky</span>
, was much impressed by the size of his
<span class="picturedef shadow">shadow</span>
, and said to himself, "I had no idea I was so <span class="picturedef big">big</span>
. Fancy my
being afraid of a <span class="picturedef lion">lion</span>
! Why, I, not he, ought to be <span class="picturedef king">king</span>
 of the
beasts"; and, heedless of danger, he strutted about as if there
could be no doubt at all about it. Just then a <span class="picturedef lion">lion</span>
 sprang upon him
and began to devour him. "Alas," he cried, "had I not lost sight of
the facts, I shouldn't have been <span class="picturedef ruin">ruined</span>
 by my fancies."</p>
<br>
<br>

</div>
</body>
</html>
